Starring Peter Davison and Pippa Haywood, it was written by Michael Aitkens.

Martin Chadwick is a middle-aged (born 1956) advertising executive whose job is downsized, and he is forced to work at home, only having contact with one colleague, Gemma, via a webcam.

Meanwhile, the Civil Service career of his wife Julie stagnates and his two twenty-something daughters, Chloe and Lucy, refuse to leave home.

Martin and Julie's best friends are Duncan Amis, an author, and his wife Sarah who is a television actress.

Trivia: Georgia Tennant is actually the daughter of Peter Davison (and Sandra Dickinson).